Assistant Project Manager

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Job overview

Are you an aspiring project manager eager to contribute to impactful healthcare projects? Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Assistant Project Manager to join our team on an 18-month fixed-term contract, with the potential to progress to a substantive Band 6 post.

This post is a career-grade development opportunity, designed to support your progression from Band 5 to Band 6. If you have already completed a period of project management study or have a project qualification but lack applied experience this role is a great next step.

Main duties of the job

As an Assistant Project Manager, you will be:

• Responsible for managing the delivery of specific and defined elements of a project or projects, which may span Trust-wide or System-wide initiatives.
• Supporting the coordination of tasks, facilitating, and monitoring progress of project status across the life cycle to meet cost, quality, and time models.
• Improving performance across projects and the wider department.
• Providing day-to-day supervision or coordination of staff working on specific projects.
• Delivering training on your own project to clinicians, management, and staff at all levels.

You will also champion and demonstrate exemplary leadership behaviours as part of the Trust's Improving Together programme, fostering a culture of continuous improvement in your practice and encouraging these behaviours in the wider team and across the Trust.

Additionally, you will:

• Support requirements gathering by evidencing the need for change through business analytical skills and benchmarking of current activity ("As Is").

• Carry out process mapping activities and produce visual maps to support the scoping of change and develop change requirements.

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 27 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This post is a career-grade development opportunity, designed to support your progression from Band 5 to Band 6.

Appointment to the substantive Band 6 post will depend on:

• Successfully demonstrating that all key assessment criteria and role requirements are fully met.
• Completion of the development pathway from Band 5 to Band 6.

If these requirements are not met during the 18-month contract, the post will end at Band 5.

Apprenticeship Eligibility

During the fixed-term contract, the successful applicant will be fully supported in their professional development, including potential enrolment into an apprenticeship. Apprenticeships are subject to specific visa and residency requirements. They are typically suitable for individuals with the right to live and work in the UK, such as:

• UK nationals.
• EU/EEA citizens with settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme.
• Individuals with indefinite leave to remain in the UK.

Please note, overseas students on a student visa are generally ineligible for apprenticeships due to working hour constraints (e.g., 20 hours per week during term time). Ensure you understand your visa obligations before applying.

If you have commenced an apprenticeship and wish to transfer employers, this may also be considered.. There may also be potential to offer this opportunity on a permanent basis which would be considered on a case-by-case basis, subject to full hiring panel approval. Please include full details in your Supporting Information if you wish to be considered under these criteria.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• One years' experience of working in the field of project management or change management plus some project leadership experience
• Understanding of a range of work procedures and practices in the field of project & programme management (e.g. project governance, risk management)
• Experience of process mapping & producing visual maps and/or gathering business analytics to support change

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a health care setting or large scale organisation
• Experience of system wide working and planning
• Day to day supervision of staff
• Awareness of budgets and budget management
• Continuous/quality improvement (A3 thinking, PDSA, improvement huddles)

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree qualification or an equivalent level of knowledge of project management/change acquired through significant experience in the field and some training (e.g. diploma, apprenticeship)

Desirable criteria

• Working towards a project management qualification (such as Prince2 or APM) or apprenticeship in the field of projects or change

We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-

• Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
• Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
• An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months)
• Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
• Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
• An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
• Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
• Cycle to work scheme
• Uniform provided (where required)
• On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
• On site health and fitness club
• On site car parking
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.

SEASONAL RESPIRATORY VACCINATIONS

We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.

GETTING TO WORK

We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY

We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.

The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.

OTHER INFORMATION

If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to replay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £13 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.

Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.

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Documents to download

• APM Band 5_Approved December 2024 (PDF, 456.6KB)
• Facts about Salisbury (PDF, 214.5KB)